Planning Future Research in Network Science and Engineering

提案编号：0850898PI：John Doyle研究所：宾夕法尼亚大学该项目的最高目标是促进“网络科学”和“网络设计”之间的发展关系，为这两个领域的横向研究议程的发展作出贡献。为此目的，将组织讲习班和教程。将仔细审查(I)网络科学的现状，(Ii)网络科学、其他理论和网络设计之间的关系，以及(Iii)为该领域确定和支持新的研究方法和工具的主题领域中的关键问题、开放问题和研究挑战。这个项目的潜力不仅是连接不同的和以前支离破碎的数学和应用领域，而且根据理论见解本身新地整合教育和研究，创建具有更大范围和发展能力的分层的真实和虚拟组织。这个项目的成功应该是直接和长期的，从工程学所有领域的实用网络体系结构设计，到为系统和合成生物学提供急需的概念框架，再到从根本上改变和统一系统和复杂性的教学。

Proposal Number: 0850898PI: John Doyle Institution: University of PennsylvaniaThe top level goal of this project is to advance the developing relationship between "network science" and "network design" by contributing to the development of a cross-cutting research agenda in these areas. For this purpose workshops and tutorials will be organized. Critical issues, open questions, and research challenges in the topic areas of (i) the state of network science, (ii) the relationship between network science, other theories, and network design, and (iii) identifying and enabling new research methodologies and tools for the filed, will be carefully examined. The potential of this project is to not only connect diverse and previously fragmented mathematical and application domains but newly integrate both education and research based on the theoretical insights themselves, creating layered real and virtual organizations with greater scope and evolvability. The success of this project should be both immediate and long-lasting, from practical network architecture design in all areas of engineering, to providing a much-needed conceptual framework for systems and synthetic biology, to radically transforming and unifying the teaching of systems and complexity.